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imagination

Noun

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The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines.

The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.

The power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal.

A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Imagination is more valuable than information. Albert Einstein

The imagination is the eye of the soul. Joseph Joubert

Imagination means nothing without doing. Charlie Chaplin

If you starve for three days, there is no thought that does not invade your imagination. Korean Proverb

All fear has much imagination and little talent. Colombian Proverb

Imagination gallops, judgment merely walks. Italian Proverb

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